One of fashion's most iconic redheads pens amoving coming-of-age story chronicling herprofessional and personal metamorphosis.At age eighteen, she took the fashion world bystorm in a captivating Vogue Italia cover image bySteven Meisel. She's walked runways for AlexanderMcQueen, Chanel, Valentino, and Gucci and starredin countless campaigns. She's released two full-lengthalbums. And she's advocated for model rights in theworkplace. For sure, Karen Elson has emerged as atour de force in the worlds of fashion and entertain-ment over her two decade long career.For the first time, the British supermodel presents apoignant look into her life and work in book form.Exquisitely written, this tome details her childhood ina gritty industrial town in Northern England and herrise to fame as one of fashion's most unique faces toher evolution as a singer-songwriter and her thoughtson body image and the state of fashion up untilthe present day. Accompanied by legendary imagesby such photographers as Craig McDean, AnnieLeibovitz, and Mert and Marcus, Elson's poetic andat times haunting prose brims with an intimacythat most fans have never encountered before. Withcontributions by Tim Walker and Grace Coddington,this beautifully crafted book is a powerful glimpse intothe many sides and fiery spirit of one of the greatestmuses of our time.Karen Elson is a British supermodel, singer-songwriter, advo-cate, and mother. She resides in Nashville. Tim Walker is aBritish fashion photographer whose work regularly appears inVogue, W, and Love magazines. Edward Enninful , OBE, isthe editor in chief of British Vogue. Grace Coddington isthe creative director at large of Vogue.